To Helen Back
“There was no ribbon of footpath before them, not even a dirt road that led onto the property situated barely a half mile up the road from River Bend. The only indication that others had been there recently was a succession of crisscrossing tire tracks, which made parallel lines of mud where weeds and grass had once grown, and an enormous billboard perched incongruously before the fog of trees and brush.
FUTURE SITE OF WET ’N’ WOOLLY WATER PARK! the sign proclaimed in brilliant blue letters.... Opening next summer! was added beneath in hot pink.
Merely reading the words made Ida feel sick.
She buoyed her spirits with the thought that Milton Grone was out of the way so there was a chance, however small, that she might put a stop to the construction before it ever came to pass.
Just a few hours after the funeral service, she’d gotten wind of a ceremonial ground-breaking involving several token suits from Wet ’n’ Woolly’s corporate office, as well as a photographer and reporter dispatched from the Alton Telegraph.MoreLess
FUTURE SITE OF WET ’N’ WOOLLY WATER PARK! the sign proclaimed in brilliant blue letters.... Opening next summer! was added beneath in hot pink.
Merely reading the words made Ida feel sick.
She buoyed her spirits with the thought that Milton Grone was out of the way so there was a chance, however small, that she might put a stop to the construction before it ever came to pass.
Just a few hours after the funeral service, she’d gotten wind of a ceremonial ground-breaking involving several token suits from Wet ’n’ Woolly’s corporate office, as well as a photographer and reporter dispatched from the Alton Telegraph.MoreLess
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